JONATHAN Gold, the legendary Los Angeles Times food critic who died this year, never reviewed a restaurant on one visit alone. In City of Gold, the documentary that charted his groundbreaking championing of street food ...
Reviews
Review: Andrew Green at Mamucium
FIRST things first. It’s pronounced Mah Moo See Um. It’s a variation on Mancunium, the Roman fort in Castlefield from which, mist-shrouded legend has it, Manchester sprung. Etymology nerds note it means breast-shaped hill. Mamucium ...
Review: Tre Ciccio, Altrincham
IT was the pizza that drew us to Tre Ciccio. After suggesting Salvi’s Neapolitan style topped dough might be the best around (despite our soft spot for Rudy’s) we then felt compelled to check out ...
Review: Piccolino Caffe Grande
AN old friend has been through some difficult times. All’s well now but you’re still hesitant about dropping by. That was the case with Piccolino Caffe Grande, closed for seven weeks after a minor fire ...
Review: Game enough to sample Iberica’s winter specials?
AUTUMN’S the game season and this healthy, sustainable meat is guaranteed to be on the menu in the best country inns and hotels. Great places to sample it within an hour’s driving distance of Manchester ...
Review: Canto, Cutting Room Square
NO-ONE has ever visited Lisbon without trekking up to the Belém district to tackle the Pastéis de Belém. They’ve been baking these egg tart pastries dusted with cinnamon at the atmospheric Antiga Confeitaria de Belém ...
Review: Northern Monk Refectory NQ
DON’T go searching for extensive food offerings in Manchester’s craft beer temples. Few bother to run a hot kitchen. So Port Street Beer House, winner in the beer bar category at the 2018 Manchester Food ...
Review: Gaucho, St Mary’s Street
REMEMBER those cowpoke movies when they reassemble a gang of honest desperadoes for one last impossible mission? Maybe there’s a Pampas-driven version featuring Argentinia’s answer, the Gauchos, equally tall in the saddle and not averse ...
Review: Tattu winter menu
IN a restaurant climate where closures and cutbacks are making the headlines expansion is a brave move. So good luck to Tattu, which is currently fitting out 5,000 sq ft of space for its third ...
Review: School For Scandal, First Street
A BIT of culture first. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish dramatist whose classic plays are still a hoot. For obvious reasons this ToM reviewer’s favourite is ‘The Critic’ and there’s a soft spot too ...